Electricity prices soar in Poland

The Polish energy regulator Energy Regulation Bureau (URE) has given its consent to high energy price increases. On average, the price of electricity in Poland will go up by 11.6 per cent.

The newspaper warns that some households will face even higher increases.

The energy regulator has informed that 12 companies supplying electric energy in Poland want to increase their prices by 23 per cent on average. The majority of them operate in Eastern Poland, the poorest part of the country.

URE chairman has said that the electricity price in Lublin (South East Poland) will go up by 30 per cent, while in Rzeszów (also South East) only by 9.2 percent.

Electricity bills in Warsaw will be 19.5 per cent higher.

Annual electricity consumption will cost the average Polish household 100 zlotys more, the newspaper Dziennik predicts.

Source: .polskieradio.pl